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Sirach 41
- 1 A! deth, thi mynde is ful bittir to an vniust man, and hauynge pees in hise richessis;
- 2 to a restful man, and whose weies ben dressid in alle thingis, and yit myyti to take mete.
- 3 A! deth, thi doom is good to a nedi man, and which is maad lesse in strengthis,
- 4 and failith for age, and to whom is care of alle thingis, and vnbileueful, that leesith wisdom.
- 5 Nyle thou drede the doom of deth; haue thou mynde what thingis weren byfore thee, and what thingis schulen come on thee; this dom is of the Lord to ech man.
- 6 And tho thingis that schulen come on thee in the good plesaunce of the hiyeste; whethir ten yeer, ether an hundrid, ether a thousynde.
- 7 For whi noon accusyng of lijf is in helle.
- 8 The sones of abhomynaciouns ben the sones of synneris; and thei that dwellen bisidis the housis of wickid men.
- 9 The eritage of the sones of synneris schal perische; and the contynuaunce of schenschipe with the seed of hem.
- 10 Sones playnen of a wickid fadir; for thei ben in schenschip for hym.
- 11 Wo to you, ye wickid men, that han forsake the lawe of the hiyeste.
- 12 And if ye be borun, ye schulen be borun in cursidnesse; and if ye ben deed, youre part schal be in cursidnesse.
- 13 Alle thingis that ben of the erthe, schulen turne in to the erthe; so wickid men schulen turne fro cursyng in to perdicioun.
- 14 The morenyng of men is in the bodi of hem; but the name of wickid men schal be doon awei.
- 15 Haue thou bisynesse of a good name; for whi this schal dwelle more with thee, than a thousynde tresouris grete and preciouse.
- 16 The noumbre of daies is the terme of good lijf; but a good name schal dwelle with outen ende.
- 17 Sones, kepe ye techyng in pees; for whi wisdom hid, and tresour vnseyn, what profit is in euer either?
- 18 Betere is a man that hidith his foli, than a man that hidith his wisdom.
- 19 Netheles turne ye ayen in these thingis that comen forth of my mouth.
- 20 For it is not good to kepe alle vnreuerence, and not alle thingis plesen alle men in feith.
- 21 Be ye aschamed of fornycacioun, bifor fadir, and bifor modir; and of a leesyng, bifore a iustice, and bifore a myyti man;
- 22 and of trespas, bifor a prince, and bifore a iuge; and of wickidnesse, bifore a synagoge, and a puple; and of vnriytwisnesse,
- 23 bifore a felow, and a frend;
- 24 and of thefte, in the place where ynne thou dwellist; of the treuthe and testament of God; of sittyng at the mete in looues, and of the blemyschyng of yifte, and takyng;
- 25 of stilnesse, bifore hem that greeten; of the biholdyng of a letcherouse womman, and of the turnyng a wey of the cheer of a cosyn.
- 26 Turne thou not awey the face fro thi neiybore; and be thou war of takyng a wei a part, and not restorynge.
- 27 Biholde thou not the womman of an othere man; and enserche thou not her hand maide, nether stonde thou at hir bed.
- 28 Be thou war of frendis, of the wordis of vpbreidyng; and whanne thou hast youe, vpbreide thou not.
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